gosh this is such a bummer to read yeah any policy implemented at scale, no matter how well designed, is going to have some bad results some subset of such policies is worth implementing anyway because the net benefits in some sense outweigh the net costshttps://twitter.com/alexandraerin/status/1004400861865488384 …
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even in modern times the US (the world) has been through some Shit and none of that seemed to be accompanied by a--I don't know, systematic dissolution of small-scale society, of families and friendships our natural and Meaningful choiceless bonds
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when I read about social disasters--Totalitarianism in Russia or China, say--and hear that children reported their parents, or friends condemned each other for crowds, it feels like a kind of blasphemy; a violation of something sacred and more especially evil than simple murder
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I guess what I'm trying to say is, contra OP, please be kind to your friends and neighbors and family and loved ones, even and especially the ones who are Wrong and Bad sans that I'm not sure there's anything left for Policy to save /finhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/879352273976950786 …
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I've talked to a lot of people who have lost homes and prosperity because they thought someone was flagging neutral or even allied during the culture wars... and found out, no, Red Team was here. Sometimes the calculus is "fight or die."
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(I am not able to parse this tweet or I would respond to its substance--??)
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this is horrifying to me in the same qualitative way, though not quantitatively, that OP's thread was, if that makes any sense to you
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